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Video: Vittorio Brumotti, trials master, defies gravity

There's trick riding, there's freestyle, and then there's effortlessly and gracefully floating on two wheels over moving palettes, gliding along railings, and riding the spine of a decrepit airliner on a bike.

There’s trick riding, there’s freestyle, and then there’s effortlessly and gracefully floating on two wheels over moving palettes, gliding along railings, and riding the spine of a decrepit airliner on a bike.

That’s something else altogether, especially when you’re talking about a rider like Vittorio Brumotti.

In this video, published by Global Cycling Network, Brumotti makes it look easy as ever. The video follows the legendary daredevil Italian trials rider through an industrial site, riding along coal elevators and through culverts, and continues through a boneyard of decommissioned aircraft. He takes a spin down the aisle of an old jet on two wheels; he performs tricks on its wings.

And don’t even get us started on the tricky balancing act he does along the railing of a cliffside highway, perched precariously with the asphalt on his left side, a plummet into the ocean on his right. It’s reminiscent of his performance earlier this year as a contestant, representing Italy, on the TV show “World’s Most Talented,” when he pulled off a similarly precipitous stunt 65 feet above a rocky shoreline, buffeted by seaside winds. But for a 10-time Guinness World Record holder who climbed The Burj Khalifa on a bike in Dubai, UAE, you’ve got to think it’s just par for the course.

Watch and see how white your knuckles get.